Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Interpretive Authorities There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser Michael Bérubé How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stanley Gerald Graff Theory, Practice, and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics Martin Stone Fish and Dworkin on the Work of Interpretation in a Democracy Gary S. Wihl Part Two: Philosophical Interventions Deconstructed to Death? Fish on Freedom Michael Robertson The Trouble with (Arguing against) Principle: Stanley Fish's Incomplete Machiavellianism Ree Way Dasenbrock Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Justification of Belief Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham Contingent Universals and Rhetorical Pragmatism Steven Mailloux Part Three: Political Prospects The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish and His Trouble with Principles Terry Eagleton Critical Theory and Political Action Margaret Kohn Extirpating for Fun and Profit H. Aram Veeser Professional Distinction Evan Watkins The Consequences of Holocaust Denial Michael Bernard-Donals Part Four: Afterword One More Time Stanley Fish Contributors Index